Redirect CMS ‘home’ page to site’s main page

You may have noticed in your Google webmaster tools that there are duplicate home pages – one is yoursite.com/home and the other is simply yoursite.com

To avoid the duplicate pages, a simple redirect via the url-rewrite method is all that’s needed to avoid this duplicate content.

By default, Magento’s main page is called ‘home’, so Google treats these as 2 separate pages.

go to catalog/url-rewrite management in your admin control panel and ‘add Url rewrite – select type of ‘custom’ and fill in the fields as shown below:

You’ll notice that the target path is “../” – this is so it’ll go to the default index page of your Magento Home directory. You could also specify the exact url if you prefer (ie http://yoursite.com) or a different path if your store is located in a subfolder.

Magento Tips & Techniques

Magento is one of the leading E-Commerce platforms. The information provided in this site hopefully will help you with some "tweaks" to enhance the shopping experience or assist the administrator.

The posts are in no particular order but are added whenever I think of a tip, technique, code snippet or change that I think might be useful to the community.

I've only included 'hacks' that can be implemented by someone with a general Magento structure knowledge and basic php skills. More sophisticated Magento modifications are available from numerous sites and the Magento Knowledge base.